Chapter 723
Chapter 724
“Welcome back, Your Majesty!”
The grand recital of all the angels was solemn and sacred, causing all four people inside the tower to fall into a daze.
Xia Feng: “???”
Cha Nai Xue: “!!”
Wait, my ally, don’t you have too many identities! Cha Nai Xue’s joy from her surging strength vanished. She suddenly realized how far she still was from these three people. She had to work harder!
Mu Qingtong’s beautiful eyes turned in confusion, and the woman in the green dress seemed to fall into distant memories.
Xia Feng’s scalp tingled. “Oh no, am I going to encounter an outrageous plot where the Dragon King returns?”
[All the angels returned and found their revered Angel King being humiliated as a female slave!]
“…”
Jiang Qiue snapped back to reality, shook her head, and ignored the birdmen outside. She looked at Xia Feng and said in a clear voice, “You should have guessed. I am the Angel King, Xila, who went missing for a thousand years.”
Xia Feng recoiled tactically in shock. “It’s really Queen Xila?”
The Third Pillar Gate was different from the Fourth Pillar Gate. Shang Jue of the Fourth Pillar Gate was very active, completely controlling the Li Dong Legion and the Yin Dragon Legion.
However, Fule Shi, the Pillar State of the Third Pillar Gate, was very Buddhist. He lived in the mountains and forests for ascetic cultivation, rarely caring about worldly affairs. Therefore, the Angel Legion and the Yama Legion under his command each had a king, with much greater power than ordinary disciples.
Angel King Xila was once the empire’s facade, leading the Angel Legion to protect the Imperial Central Court. She was a household name, with extensive records in history and textbooks. Xia Feng had learned about her in school, and she was even a mandatory exam topic for the college entrance examination in history.
However, according to the textbooks, King Xila was severely injured in the Imperial Civil War a thousand years ago and disappeared mysteriously not long after, leaving no trace. Why she disappeared and where she went had always been one of the empire’s ten greatest unsolved mysteries.
Xia Feng was silent for two seconds, digesting this information, and then asked, “Since you were the king of those birdmen, why did you run away just now, and why were you seriously injured?”
Hearing this question, Jiang Qiue’s expression was complicated and somewhat annoyed. She sighed, “It’s a long story.”
“It’s fine. They can’t get in anyway. Take your time,” Xia Feng said.
Uphiel outside the tower was still babbling, but the three of them ignored him and stared intently at Jiang Qiue, listening attentively.
“This matter, it all started from the beginning of heaven and earth…”
“???”
“No, sister, you don’t have to be this slow.”
However, after hearing her next sentence, Xia Feng abandoned the idea of interrupting.
“Besides humans, dragons, and nightmares, there were four Innate Gods in the world: Nine-Tails, Xuan Huang, Evil Crow, and Dragon Pigeon.”
“What are you talking about?” Xia Feng’s eyes widened, and he recoiled tactically. “There’s such a thing?”
“Don’t interrupt,” Mu Qingtong kicked Xia Feng lightly, her gaze sweeping over the woman in the green dress with interest. She was clearly very interested in Jiang Qiue’s story.
Jiang Qiue felt Mu Qingtong’s gaze suddenly become very dangerous, as if she were looking at a test subject with a serial number. It was terrifying.
While on guard, she continued to explain, “Innate Gods are spirits born without parents, nurtured by heaven and earth. They are born noble and feed on blood.”
“The Divine Realm is within our grasp.”
“Even the Heavenly God Realm is a realm we will reach eventually, as long as we have enough time and blood food. There is no need for Star Position Devouring.”
As she spoke, Jiang Qiue’s gaze became reminiscent. “After the Twilight of the Gods, my Godhead shattered, and my Divine Authority was scattered everywhere. I used a secret technique to transform into an Azure Fox and barely survived in the forbidden area of the Evil Forest until I met the Heavenly Martial Princess in the Middle Ages. She sealed me into a tailed beast and merged me into her body…”
Xia Feng: “???” Tailed beast?
Too many plot points. Let me slow down. Xia Feng cupped his forehead. “Is this thing the tailed beast I’m thinking of?”
“Innate Gods cannot be controlled by humans, let alone be called inferior beings like ‘tailed beasts’.” Jiang Qiue’s expression soured. “But Dragon Pigeon went crazy for some reason and used Laws as a rope to create an authority that could enslave oneself and Innate Gods. After this madman reincarnated, his authority turned into God Relics and scattered throughout the land in the Middle Ages.”
“It is also because of this that, since the chaotic Middle Ages, the four Innate Gods have been called the Four Divine Beasts by the world.” As she spoke, a frost fell upon Jiang Qiue’s ethereal and beautiful face. Clearly, being named after beasts was unacceptable to Jiang Qiue, and she felt deeply ashamed.
“The Heavenly Martial Princess happened to obtain Dragon Pigeon’s [God Relic · Heart of Peace] and successfully comprehended its [Dove Sealing Technique]. So she tried every means to find me, used the Dove Sealing Technique to imprison me, and merged with me in my tailed beast form to help her conquer territories.”
“It wasn’t until she unified the Real World, became Empress, and fell into a deep sleep that I finally regained my freedom…”
Xia Feng listened quietly. Jiang Qiue probably didn’t know that the Heavenly Martial Empress was the Pale Dragon God. The existence of the Eighth Generation seemed very special, making the empire’s top brass believe she was just a Dragon Scion genius with the Pale Dragon bloodline, not suspecting she was the Pale Dragon itself. Even someone like Jiang Qiue, who had been with her day and night, hadn’t noticed anything amiss.
!
“So, after regaining your freedom, you took a position in the Angel Legion and became the Angel King, Xila?” Xia Feng mused.
“Mm.”
“After all, Fule Shi doesn’t manage anything. The authority of this position was convenient for me to search for the scattered authorities, and it was very free. So I didn’t leave the empire, until the Imperial Civil War a thousand years ago…” The woman in the green dress narrowed her beautiful eyes. “In that civil war, I was severely injured and cursed for some reason, and my strength plummeted below the Sacred Realm.”
“Because of the curse, my strength could never recover, so some people with ulterior motives began to stir.”
Hearing this, Xia Feng roughly understood and looked up at the six-winged angel outside the tower, narrowing his black eyes. “So, Uphiel is one of those people with ulterior motives?”
Jiang Qiue nodded silently, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, staring coldly at the outside of the tower. “The Empress is in deep sleep in the Heavenly Revelation Divine Palace, guarded by Heaven’s Revelation Knights. As long as the Empress doesn’t awaken, the Heart of Peace cannot be obtained. But a thousand years ago, Uphiel still obtained a Heart of Peace and even successfully comprehended the Dove Sealing Technique. He probably got it from somewhere else.”
“But no matter what, when he revealed his intentions back then, Heavenly Revelation and Fule Shi didn’t stop him, saying that the empire now not only needed an Angel King but also a Divine Beast to protect the country. I knew then that I couldn’t stay in this empire anymore, so I directly severed my Nine-Tails and escaped to a safe place.”
“Severed your Nine-Tails?” Xia Feng exclaimed. He knew that each of Jiang Qiue’s tails represented a life. What did it mean to sever them all?
The woman in the green dress glanced at Cha Nai Xue and Mu Qingtong, thought for a moment, and finally said softly:
“Severing all nine tails, I might truly die, or I might revert to my fox form and be reborn in Qingqiu.”
“I gambled correctly.”
“After being reborn, several hundred years passed. I transformed back into human form and chose a less eye-catching but still somewhat powerful identity: the Black Moon Saintess.”
“…”
After listening, Xia Feng’s mind buzzed because he suddenly realized the problem and looked at Jiang Qiue as if he had seen a ghost. “You mean… you’re actually a fox?”
